Mail-in ballots must be sent out today.

With a state deadline for sending out mail-in voting ballots arrived at today, Wisconsin is living with consequences for those who might want to get their name on this fall’s ballot races, but are too late. CNN said a court decision left the USPS free to deliver their printed ballots, as planned, without delay, in Wisconsin. Burdening electors and current candidates already on the ballot were a majority’s key opinion in a state court decision on Monday. A secondary matter with concern for voter choice of a Green ticket, one which claimed to be fully legitimate in their request to be put on the list, is mailing and printing the one million new ballots for unprecedented high absentee ballot requests. Many have received a ballot with the controversial candidate choice, and would need to return their original ballot.

We want majority rule, as Thomas Jefferson propounded in his writing and winning in 1800 and 1804 along rules for his own system that said how states are represented among themselves in allowing their citizens to have a correct weight in their impact on voting for a candidate for president. Some argue, however, we in many states since have strayed into grounds far from those intended for a basis of majority support behind a federal, national majority candidate. In particular, this has to do with winner-take-all popular vote Electoral College vote equivalency in many states, with a couple of exceptions. An original problem Jefferson’s system was designed to fix was competition between states, and this is still today a controversial topic come election time.

If you look back, some say history repeats itself, others claim that it does not, but instead in fact does rhyme.

A recent article on a new book release about the president by the New Yorker says: “Nixon did not need to resort to Jew-baiting or race-baiting on the campaign trail. He was always far ahead in the polls against George McGovern and ended up winning everywhere but Massachusetts and the District of Columbia.”

Piers Morgan, a television news presenter for ITV, wrote in the London-based daily newspaper the Daily Mail, saying the New York Times’ 1619 Project to write slavery in a correct way back into our US shared historical narrative of our nation’s founding is incorrect. But if journalism is in fact history’s first draft, there is none other than the Times of New York (though UK papers like the London Times have a valid perspective, as well as the Daily Mail, which equally deserve to be heard) to write how we should consider white guilt (a topic most middle- or upper-class whites in America struggle to even consider). Then there is current unrest based on past and modern Black history, and we should next consider with these facts how our founders incorporated what is undoubtedly a defining feature of our early republic into our current electoral college and federal representative system.

An analysis by the Telegraph, a London-based newspaper, shows that in some of the main BBC coronavirus lock-down comedy hits on TV and radio are many more negative references to UK Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and his almost-doppelgänger, President Trump. These are also shows taking aim at British conservative politicians and a far-right Brexit campaign, instead, for instance, of Biden’s campaign or the British Left.

President Trump lables, or could have, stay-at-home-Joe from reports he spent all of his campaign strategizing from his basement. Biden’s campaign, though, said according to DC news outlet the Hill he will begin traveling on Wednesday — having self-quarantined in his Delaware home during most of the coronavirus outbreak this campaign season. His next scheduled campaign stop for a first extended push in a while is to Michigan, where he will begin a last-ditch effort to run through other Midwestern swing states, including Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Arizona — all like Michigan are important for the former Vice President, which he hopes to sway to his side come November third’s Election Day.

While Trump has shown there is a key way to influence elections he thinks he can help to win: by tweeting an endorsement of them; there is a new voice to be reckoned with. Now he has a challenger on the Left, who could claim her endorsements as Representative of New York’s 14th District means she could claim to be just as influential in helping win elections as the president.

Sidelining minorities, criticizing China, Trump gets upper hand from convention

Trump gave his last Republican National Convention (RNC) speech from the White House, although US politicians are forbidden from using federal buildings for political rallies.

Ask any journalist to report on something and they will out of necessity include assumptions about something they are writing about — what their readers know, what others would think, etc. So to make what my point is clear, consider journalists as weathermen, or women. By doing so we can see how we are able to avoid some of those greatest political calamities — the types that end a Golden Age like for the 17th century Dutch, 18th and 19th century British, or just maybe 20 and 21st century Americans, — is by using our increased knowledge of politics to predict feasible, smart policy by those voted or appointed to office.

The Democratic National Convention (DNC) 2020 got disadvantaged by going before Republicans’ version a week later, because viewers again got used to, in general, how these events work and what they’re about, even though now virtual.